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Vicky Ward / CNN:
Exclusive: Giuliani associate willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Biden  —  (CNN)A lawyer for an indicted associate of Rudy Giuliani tells CNN that his client is willing to tell Congress about meetings the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee …
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Michael Wilner / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Records show contact between Pompeo and Giuliani ahead of Ukraine ambassador's ouster  —  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had several phone calls with President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, toward the end of March, weeks before U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch …
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
In Trump's Washington, the rogue actors are the real players — and the experts are increasingly irrelevant  —  Two years ago President Trump shared a version of his foreign policy philosophy with a Fox News interviewer who asked about widespread vacancies at the State Department.
New York Daily News:   Giuliani Ukraine pal gave ‘hard evidence’ to Trump impeachment investigators, wants to testify
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal:
How Facebook's Embed in the Trump Campaign Helped the President Win  —  James Barnes is now focused on using digital-ad strategies to try to get Trump out of office in 2020  —  After the 2016 presidential election, Republican Party officials credited Facebook Inc. with helping Donald Trump win the White House.
Discussion: Raw Story
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NBC News:
Documents released to ethics group show Giuliani, Pompeo contacts before Ukraine ambassador ousted
Discussion: New York Post
Steve Scherer / Reuters:
Exclusive: U.S. Navy secretary backs SEAL's expulsion review, despite Trump objection  —  HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said on Friday a Navy SEAL convicted of battlefield misconduct should face a board of peers weighing whether to oust him from the elite force …
Discussion: Navy Times and The Gateway Pundit
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Ryan Browne / CNN:   Navy Secretary says review of SEAL should proceed despite Trump's opposition
Sébastien Roblin / NBC News:   Navy defies Trump's clemency of SEAL Edward Gallagher to save its institutional integrity
YouTube:
Elizabeth Warren: Bolivia “Sure Looks Like” A Coup … The Young Turks Contributor Ryan Grim (https://twitter.com/ryangrim) speaks with Elizabeth Warren at a rally in Atlanta, Georgia.  —  #Warren2020 #2020 #ElizabethWarren  —  Don't forget to tell us your thoughts in the comment section below!
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Ryan Grim / The Intercept:
In Three Touchstone Speeches, Elizabeth Warren Grounds Her Campaign in a History of American Protest and Movement Building  —  To launch her campaign, back in January, Sen. Elizabeth Warren had a number of locations to choose from.  She could have started in Norman, Oklahoma …
Discussion: Bad News and The Guardian
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Trump Privately Frets 'What's Going on With Drudge?'  During Impeachment, Asks Jared Kushner to ‘Look Into It’  —  One of the most powerful media organs in the conservative movement hasn't been kind to the president during impeachment.  He's noticed.  —  As House lawmakers move quickly toward …
Discussion: Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
The United States Is Starting to Look Like Ukraine  —  Why the president must be impeached and removed.  —  Donald Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office.  This isn't what I thought two months ago, when the impeachment inquiry began.  I argued that the evidence fell short of the standards of a prosecutable criminal act.
Discussion: Crooked Timber
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: CEO of Ukraine State Gas Firm Preparing to Testify in Giuliani Probe  —  The CEO of Ukraine's state gas company, Naftogaz, is ready to give evidence in a U.S. federal investigation that is reportedly probing the business dealings of Rudy Giuliani, the CEO said in an exclusive interview on Friday.
Discussion: Axios
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Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:   Trump's Gatekeeper Put Rudy in Touch With Pompeo: Emails
Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
A Senate Trial Could Put Trump's Use of Aggressive Defense Tactics to Their Biggest Test  —  The president's campaign against the Mueller report and its author is a road map of what is likely to lie ahead.  —  WASHINGTON — Over four decades in public life, President Trump has sought to bend business …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Mariam Khan / ABC News:
Path for Senate impeachment proceedings unclear as Trump says ‘I want a trial’
Discussion: The Hill and Breitbart
Ryan Heath / Politico:
Hong Kong activists urge UK to give ex-colony's residents ‘real citizenship’  —  Their current status does not allow them the ‘right of abode’ in Britain.  —  HALIFAX, Canada — A delegation of Hong Kong democracy activists has accused Britain's prime ministerial contenders of abandoning millions …
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The Age:   The moment a Chinese spy decided to defect to Australia
Washington Post:
Trump opens up Camp David as an ‘adult playground’ to woo GOP lawmakers during impeachment  —  President Trump, partial to gold and marble elegance, never took a shine to rustic Camp David.  So acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney pitched him on an unusual idea at the start of the House impeachment inquiry …
Michael M. Grynbaum / New York Times:
‘Tuesday Afternoon Impeachment’ Is as Big as ‘Monday Night Football’  —  TV's impeachment drama is drawing big ratings, but a Democratic debate on MSNBC sank to a viewership low.  —  On the third day that impeachment hearings blanketed American televisions, from morning talk shows to late-night monologues …
Discussion: Daily Kos and Althouse
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Tobin Smith / New York Times:
Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient
Discussion: NB Blog
William J. Broad / New York Times:
Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project  —  His Soviet code name was Godsend, and he came to Los Alamos from a family of secret agents.  —  The world's first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the New Mexican desert — a result of a highly secretive effort code-named …
New York Times:
Russia Inquiry Review Is Said to Criticize F.B.I. but Rebuff Claims of Biased Acts  —  A watchdog report will portray the pursuit of a wiretap of an ex-Trump adviser as sloppy, but it also debunks some accusations by Trump allies of F.B.I. wrongdoing.  —  WASHINGTON — A highly anticipated report …
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Washington Post:
Justice Dept. watchdog finds political bias did not taint top officials running the FBI's Russia probe …
Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Pence on surprise Iraq trip to reassure Kurds, greet troops  —  1 of 4  —  ERBIL, Iraq (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday in the highest-level American trip since President Donald Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago.
Discussion: Politico and Axios
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Jeff Mason / Reuters:   Pence visits U.S. troops in Iraq, holds call with prime minister
Tom Vilsack / USA Today:
Joe Biden has stood the test of time.  He should be the next president  —  A former Iowa governor says Joe Biden can help heal our nation and return a sense of normalcy and decency to the White House.  —  In one of the early episodes of “Wolf Hall,” a PBS Masterpiece Theatre presentation …
Wall Street Journal:
Bolton Claims White House Blocked His Access to Twitter Account  —  President Trump denies allegation regarding former national security adviser's handle  —  WASHINGTON—Former National Security Adviser John Bolton broke his silence on Friday with a claim that the White House blocked access …
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Andrew Pulver / The Guardian:
Sacha Baron Cohen: Facebook would have let Hitler buy ads for ‘final solution’
David Fahrenthold / Washington Post:
Trump's legal strategy: If you can't beat the case, beat the system
The Daily Beast:
Facebook Executive Joel Kaplan ‘Helped Quarterback’ His Pal Brett Kavanaugh's SCOTUS Nomination
Discussion: Raw Story and Washington Post
Antonia Farzan / Washington Post:
When a deep red town's only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store.  Just don't call it ‘socialism.’
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Yelena Dzhanova / CNBC:
Rep. Alcee Hastings, who faces House ethics probe, paid his girlfriend more than his chief of staff
Washington Post:
Amazon's formal challenge to massive Pentagon award uses videos that mark potential influence exerted by Trump
Discussion: Vox and Axios, more at Techmeme »
Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
After a damaging week and a bizarre Fox rant, psychiatrists and GOP strategists are worried for Trump
Discussion: Common Dreams
Toluse Olorunnipa / Washington Post:
In rollicking 53-minute conversation, Trump embraces conspiracies, spreads falsehoods and insults opponents
Discussion: The Hill
Katie Benner / New York Times:
Barr's Legal Views Come Under Fire From Conservative-Leaning Lawyers
Discussion: Raw Story
Seth Cousins / Washington Post:
I was a juror in Roger Stone's trial. I am proud of how we came to our decision.
 

 
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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Sources: the expectation at Paramount Global is that neither of the two offers in play, Skydance-RedBird and Sony Pictures-Apollo, will come to fruition

Tom McArthur / BBC:
RSF publishes its World Press Freedom Index and places Norway, Denmark, and Sweden in the top three, the US down 10 spots at 55, and Eritrea in last place

Christina A. Cassidy / Associated Press:
In a letter, several Democrats serving as their state's top election officials ask Meta to repeal a policy allowing ads that claim the 2020 election was stolen

 
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